Feeling rather sorry for The Queen

A pointless bra? Is it just me...?

That's about the ten tors!

Well....!

! (I think)

So if I read about some poor fellow found on Dartmoor in his slippers I shall know who to blame?

I went out with newspaper man once and he said the had so much stuff about Phillip that they coudn't print. That was in the good old days before Rupert Murdoch. Somebody in Rome I think.
I don't feel sorry for the Queen: she has so many people looking after her when I think of the thousands of lonely 90 year olds in the UK

A pointless bra? Is it just me...?

No, Ana, I was thinking along the lines of Madonna - or not!

No, I don't feel sorry for her, and I doubt that she would want any of us to either

But at least any other 90 year old can sit with their feet up in comfort watching her on the telly!

MargaretX did you only go out with him once - you could have found out all sorts of things if you'd stuck with him!!

Can't recall the year but the press didn't hold back on a problem in the marriage, Phillip did a very long overseas tour and was away over the Christmas that year , it was strange a Royal working over Christmas . I am sure our keen googlers here will find the year. There was the long affair with an actress Pat Kirkwood too

1956 Philip was away on a tour of the Commonwealth

Thank you Jingle,

I don't feel sorry for her. I'm only 51 and can't walk to the kettle! I'm sure if she was in the same position she would be soon sorted out, but no, me, I have to suffer, like I have for years now. I wish I could walk about like she does. It's a joke. So no, excuse me for not gushing over the supremely rich and priviliged of this country.

We went to a lunch for a lady yesterday who is 100 today. Doing extremely well but apparently spends a lot of time alone, mornings and evenings.
Wonder if the queen does too?

We are expected to ignore queenie takes about five months holiday every year , and we are expected to accept how much this family care for the people of this country, don't question why they need over fifteen homes whilst there are homeless sleeping on the streets .

Annie, I don't want to start an argument with you, but she was born into ' The Job', and has got on with it remarkably well. I wouldn't want to have to do what she does, at her age especially. She has served us admirably, and having one's every move, sigh and blink, catalogued and discussed by all and sundry everywhere, must be appalling.
I admire her and thank her for her somewhat thankless task , even if she does have five months holiday every year. and a glass or three of to her. Happy belated birthday your majesty

Anniebach is incabable of changing the record and will keep on playing it until people ignore her. It's the same old, same old. 'Queenie', holidays, homes etc., etc., blah blah blah.

Just why is speaking of the Windsor holidays and homes and privalages dismissed as - the same old yet far more posts about the wonders of the windsors not the same old ?

And queenie was not born into the job , suppose still believe she really was chosen by God

If being monarch is such a 'thankless task' - why do we persist in having one at this level. Surely in these days of 'austerity' it should be trimmed won a bit.

The monarchy brings no more or no less business into the UK - even from a tourism perspective - than most of us do, since we work as volunteers in stately homes, charitable organisations supporting historical buildings, etc., etc.

On the topic of the service on Friday - to me the music gave the impression it was a funeral, and I'd missed the news about some VIP passing away.

Who wades through all that paperwork when she takes these five months holidays? Are we sure it doesn't get sent to her?

She was born into the job. Just because others fell by the wayside so that it came to her indirectly, doesn't change anything.

We don't know what paperwork she wades through, we are told she does Jingle. We just do not know very much about them only what the palace PR machine tells us and the usual film shots of her sitting at her desk. Her holidays we do know of, Scotland in the summer, Sandringham Christmas untill February. Windsor Ascot week , Easter and Whitsun etc.

I've never given a stuff about the length of the Queen's holidays. They are understated affairs and obviously give her much needed privacy. Her 'holiday homes' provide employment for many as well as generating income from tourists.

All the miserable carping from envious people with huge chips on shoulders isn't going to matter one jot. She will still enjoy her holidays.

So there!

Anniebach

Just to go back to postings on Saturday about the blond boy in the sailor suit on the balcony, I'm fairly sure he would have been one of Lord and Lady Nicholas Windsor's boys who are both very fair haired. Therefore part of the family. I think many of the youngsters there were grandchildren of the royal cousins. (Gloucesters, Kents etc.)